Family: Boraginaceae

High Risk Traits:

• Elevation range exceeds 1000 m, and can grow in >5 hardiness zones demonstrating environmental versatility
  
• Listed as a cultivation escape
  
• Tolerates many soil types
  
• Shade-tolerant
  
• Seeds dispersed by ants, water and intentionally by people
  
• Able to reach maturity in <1 year (annual)
  
• Seeds may possess dormancy and may form a persistent seed bank

Low Risk Traits:

• No documented negative impacts to date
  
• If able to naturalize, may only pose a threat to higher elevation areas in the tropics
  
• Unarmed (no spines, thorns or burrs)
  
• No reports of toxicity or allergens
  
• Beneficial to bees and other pollinators
  
• Ornamental
  
• Not known to form dense stands
  
• Not known to hybridize with other Nemophila species
  
• Not reported to spread vegetatively
  
• Does not resprout or tolerate fire